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Help For Hope Harbor Staff and volunteers (in photo above) of Hope Harbor Home domestic violence shelter com plete a skit demonstrating for those attending Saturday 's third annual Holiday Fling the burden of domestic violence. Pictured (from left) are Cathy Swaim. Hope Harbor Home executive director, Judith Toole, Amy Bland and Winnie Haire. Several hundred people attended the luncheon and auction sponsored by the Seaside United Methodist Church Outreach Committee to raise funds for Hope Harbor. In photo at right, Seaside Pastor the Rev. Jerry Lowry auctions off one of dozens of items donated by businesses and individuals. Last year 's Holiday Fling raised $8,000 for the shelter. This year 's goal was $10,000. The amount raised was not available at press time. STAff PHOTOS BY LYNN CARLSON School Financing Proposals To Be Presented 'Soon' BY SUSAN USHER Details of "four or five" propos als" for financing a new elementary school to serve the Leland area weren't available Monday night for Brunswick County Commissioners' consideration, but soon will be. Commissioners had anticipated adopting a financing resolution at their meeting Monday, but the coun ty finance office is preparing the proposals in a format that will allow ready comparision of the terms of the various offers. "It will be done right away for this board to adopt a resolution," County Manager Wyman Yelton said. The resolution has to designate the institution where the installment financing contract will be placed. No one spoke at a public hearing earlier Monday evening on county plans to finance the 27-classroom project at a cost of no more than $8 million using an installment financ ing contract. Unlike a bond issue, installment financing allows structuring of the repayment plan so that payments are about even over the life of the con tract, rather than larger in the earlier years. Interest rates run slightly higher for an installment contract placed privately with a lender, but the cost of the transaction is typical ly lower than for a bond issue. The Brunswick County Board of Education this week began advertis ing for sealed bids for construction of the 79,000 square foot school. Bids will be accepted through 3 p.m. Dec. 15. Bids will be opened and in spected and a contract awarded as soon after that date as possible. By the time the school is built, equipped and furnished the project cost is expected to approach $8 mil lion. The county expects to pay off the debt using state half-cent sales tax revenues designated for school purposes. Open House Friday, Saturday, Sunday November 25 & 26, 10-5 p.m. November 27 1-4 p.m. Refreshments will be served! Just in Time For Christmas 70% OFF Our already low prices-3 DAYS ONLY ?Some restrictions apply DAVIS JEWELRY AND GIFTS OPEN: MONDAY-SATURDAY 10-5 117 Causeway Dr., Ocean Isle Beach, 579-8800 Beaches Seek On From Menhaden e-Mile Buffer Fishing Boats BY DOUG RUTTER Brunswick County beach towns seeking protection for island resi dents and the vital tourist industry are now asking menhaden fishing boats to stay at least one mile off shore year-round. The one-mile "no fishing zone" is included in the latest draft of an agreement between six area beach towns, three menhaden fishing com panies and the N.C. Fisheries Association. Officials at Holden Beach, Sunset Beach, Long Beach and Caswell Beach are ready to sign the agree ment, but two other municipalities have yet to endorse the proposal. Ocean Isle Beach Commissioners aren't expected to discuss the agree ment until their Dec. 13 meeting. Yaupon Beach officials have tabled the proposal, favoring a half-mile no fishing zone instead of a one-mile zone. Jerry Schill, executive director of the N.C. Fisheries Association, did not have an immediate reaction to the latest proposal, which was devel oped two weeks ago at a meeting of town officials. Schill said the menhaden compa nies did not reccive a copy of the two-page agreement until Monday morning and had not had time to re view it in detail. However, it seems unlikely the menhaden companies will sign the document since more than two thirds of the pogics caught off Brunswick County arc within a mile of the beach. The agreement, scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 1995, is designed to re duce conflicts between local beach municipalities and the menhaden fishing companies Town officials want to reduce the chances of fish spilled from men haden boats washing up on area beaches. They're concerned about the short-term effect on residents and visitors as well as the long-term impact on tourism Three months ago, the six towns got together and asked the N.C. The proposed agreement would require menhaden companies to ncv? sin siviti iwrr nrr/yvtt in thd? muv v?>? yi/u/rtiug m? ?i"v y?5-/i pumpwater discharge and to " respect the rights of recreational fishing interests. " Marine Fisheries Commission to keep menhaden boats at least 1 'A miles offshore May I through Sept 30 and one-half mile offshore Oct. 1 through Dec 31. The state commission never con sidered the request. Instead, a com mittee of town officials and men haden company representatives was formed to work out an agreement. After an initial agreement was drafted, town representatives met two weeks at Holdcn Beach to talk it over. Among other things, they de cided to add the ban on pogy boats within a mile of the coast. "I think this would be a good compromise between the menhaden industry and the towns along the coast." Holdcn Beach Mayor Gay Atkins said Monday. Menhaden company officials said at an Aug. 17 meeting in Supply that most of the fish they harvest in Brunswick County arc caught dur ing the summer and within one mile of the beach. From 1 W6 to 1W3. 69 pcrccnt of the menhaden caught off Brunswick County were within a mile of the beach, according to the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries The only three menhaden compa nies that work in Brunswick County arc Beaufort Fisheries, based in Carteret County, and the Virginia based AMPRO Fisheries Company and Zapata Protein The current proposal calls for the N.C'. Fisheries Association (NCFA) i to serve as a liaison between the towns and menhaden companies. As proposed, the NCFA would have to pay a $1,000 fine to the towns if it fails to notify local offi cials when a menhaden vessel will be working off the Brunswick County coast. In the event of a Fish spill the re sponsible company would notify the NCFA and the towns, telling them where the spill occurred and the esti mated quantity and movement of the fish. Towns would clean up spills us ing town employees or contractors Within two weeks of the cleanup, the towns would bill the NCFA and the association would have two weeks to pay rhc towns have proposed that they be reimbursed for twice ihe cost of the actual cleanup Mayor Atkins said that provision was added bccausc cleanup costs would be only part of the economic impact of a Fish spill She said a spill cuuld have a long-term negative ef fect on tourism? the county's largest industry The proposed agreement would require menhaden companies to use an anti-foaming agent in the Fish pumpwatcr discharge and to "re spect the rights of recreational Fish ing interests " The Marine Fisheries Commis sion is expected to review' the agree ment at its meeting Dec 2 in SmithField South Brunswick Medical Group Gary D. 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